Kinzhalov Rostislav (1920—2006) – historian, ethnographer, specialist in the culture of aboriginal peoples Northern and Southern America, writer.
In 1941-1942, he was Comsomol leader of a military hospital. In 1942, he entered the Chair of Classic Philology of the Leningrad State University, which was located in the city of Saratov in evacuation. At the same time, he entered the Theoretical Composition Faculty of the Leningrad Conservatoire, which was also located also in Saratov, but his passion to philology happened to be stronger. In 1944, he moved to Leningrad, as a student of the university; he graduated from it in 1947. During his studies he started to work at museums: in 1943-1944, in Saratov - at the Museum of Fine Arts named after A.N. Radishchev; in 1945, in Leningrad, he started to work at the State Hermitage.
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